15 DECEMBER 1866, page 1

Two Tremendous Colliery Explosions Have Occurred This...

p.m. on Wednesday, the Oaks Colliery, near Barnsley, blew up, with nearly 400 men and boys in the pit, of whom scarcely fifty have been saved—the greatest loss of life ever......

Mr. Grote And Mr. Grant Duff Are Both Candidates For

the Lord Rectorship of Aberdeen University. Of course in literary eminence Mr. Grote is far superior even to his accomplished rival, being the author of one of the very few......

News Of The Week.

T liE event of the week, and it may be the event of the year, is the evacuation of Rome. The Due de Mon- tebello, Commander-in-Chief of the expeditionary force, re- ceived his......

The Russian Government Has Broken Off All Communication...

and placed the affairs of the Roman Church both in Russia and Poland under the control of the civil departments. The Poles being strict Catholics, this blow has been keenly felt......

Time Does Not Work In Favour Of Governor Eyre. The

more we hear of what happened in Jamaica during the repression of the disturbances, the more we see how completely a "reign of terror" it was. We believe we gave nearly a year......

The Moniteur Of Wednesday Contained The Official...

reorganization of the French Army. We have explained the proposal which makes the French Army conterminous with the French nation elsewhere, and need only add here that every......

This Day Week, The Requisition Signed By Fourteen Fellows Of

University College, London, and six other proprietors, was pre- sented to the Council of the College, asking for the summons of a special Court of Proprietors, to consider the......